Motion-picture projector case



Sept. 4, 1951 M. BARNETT MOTION-PICTURE PROJECTOR CASE Filed April 29,1947 Patented Sept. 4, 1951 NIT ED STAT ES PATENT O-FFIE 2,566,714MOTION-PICTURE recano-*rolt :oAsE Morris Barnett, Philadelphia, Pa.Application v-zflpjrjii sie, 1947,2 ser1a1na 744,673 2 claim?. (o1. riz-2m 1 use by anyone for carrying projectors and several film receptaclesin the same case.

Another object is to provide in such a case a construction, whereby twoor more film receptacles may be positioned in vertical alignment, 1

between the same partitions or between a partition and one side wall,while each of said receptacles is readily removable and reinsertable initsparticular position independently of the one or more others in thesame vertical relationship.

A further object is to provide in such a carrying case a partition thatserves as one side of the receptacle compartment, and at the same timeis provided with a specially designed and constructed extension for thesupport of a separate winding reel, which when a reel of lm is to beprojected serves as the reel to receive the projected portions of thefilm being shown, and from which the projected film is rewound upon theoriginal reel.

With the objects thus briefly set forth, the invention comprises furtherdetails of construction which are hereinafter fully brought out in theaccompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective View showing oneembodiment of the invention in closed position; Fig. 2 is a plan View ofthe same with the lid raised and the front wall in outwardly loweredposition; Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the closed case on the planeindicated by the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 in the direction of the arrows; Fig.4 is a similar section on the plane indicated by the line 4 4 of Fig. 2in the direction of the arrows; and Fig. 5 is a fragmentary section of aportion of one of the partitions showing a reel-supporting bracketsecured thereto and operatively supporting an empty reel.

Referring to the drawings, one embodiment of the invention comprises abox-like structure having end walls I, a rear wall 2, an abbreviatedshort section of front wall 3, to which a forwardly or outwardly openingclosure 4 is hingedly secured at 6, while a lid 'I is hingedly securedto said rear wall at 8, and is provided with normally depending edgeflanges that constitute when in a closed position extensions of saidrear end walls and of said closure 4. When said closure and said lid arein their normally closed positions. they are secured in such positionsby means of a suitable draw-latch 9. A bottom S' completes the walls ofthe case.

Within saidcaseand spacedfrom the end walls I are partitions IU, which,are secured to and maintained in predeterminedspaced relation Said eindwalls by spacer rods Il, .which prende a Compartment in each instance,that opQnS for: wardly while it is closed rearwardly by said rear wall.In each of these compartments, a lm receptacle I2 may rest upon theforward one of said spacer rods, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4, and whenin this position such receptacle is entirely free and independent of asimilar receptacle I3 resting upon the bottom 9', each of saidreceptacles being withdrawable forwardly from its portion of thecompartment when the forward closure 6 is in open position, while returnof said closure to closed position eiectively closes both of thecompartments.

To at least one of said partitions I0 is secured the lower portion I4 ofa bracket I5, the upper portion of which bracket is separated from theadjacent partition to provide a narrow space I6 to receive one flange I1of an empty reel, the other flange I8 of which is positioned upon theopposite side of said partition, when their connecting central hub I9rests within and is supported by the lowermost portion 20 of a cutout 2I, that extends downwardly from the upper edge of said bracket. Thisempty reel, which is used to receive the lm as the latter is unwoundfrom its own reel, is thus supported independently of any and all of thereceptacles and their reel contents hereinbefore described.

In addition to the foregoing provision for reels and receptacles, thelid is provided with an additional receptacle compartment indicated bythe box-like enclosure 22 shown as enclosing two receptacles 22', whileupon the inner surface of the bottom wall adjacent to one of saidpartitions is secured a smaller boxiike container 23 for holding anextra projector lamp, it being understood that the projector for whichthe improved carrying case is designed is not shown in the drawings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to protectby Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A carrying case for a motion picture projector and film, comprisingrear, side and bottom walls, a lid hingedly carried by said rear wall, alet-down closure hingedly supported adjacent to and by an extension ofthe forward portion of said bottom wall and it its lower positionforming a shelf, and a pair of partitions secured to and in spacedrelation with the respective end walls by horizontally disposed pairs ofvertically spaced rods which are operative to support a lm reel or areceptacle for the same, a reel or reel receptacle carried by theuppermost pair of said rods being accessible and removable from the caseupon raising said lid, while a reel or reel receptacle carried by alower pair of said rods is accessible and removable from the case onlyby opening said let-down closure into shelf position.

2. A carrying case for a motion picture projector and lm, comprisingrear, vside and bottom walls, a lid hingedly carried by said rear wall,a let-down closure hingedly supported adjacent to and by an extension ofthe forward portion of said bottom wall and in itsy lower positionforming a shelf, a pair of partitions secured to and in spaced relationwith-the respective end walls by horizontally disposed pairs ofvertically spaced rods which are operative to support a lm reel or areceptacle for the same, a reel or reel receptacle carried by theuppermost pair of said rods being accessible and removable from the caseupon raising said lid, while-a reel or reel receptacle carried by alower pair of said rods is accessible and removable from the case onlyby 25 opening said let-down closure into shelf position,

tion.

MORRIS BARNETT.

REFERENCES QITED The following references are of record in the le ofthis patent:

`V UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date Re. 20,448 Van Aken July 20,1937 952,263 Kreuzkamp Mar. 15, 1910 1,925,540 Neuschotz Sept. 5, 19332,075,671 Springer Mar. 30, 1937 n FQJREIGN PATENTS Y Number Y lYCountry Date 468,527 Germany Apr. 6, 1927 853,528 France Dec. 7, 1939

